THE THIRD GATE
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A NOVEL
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LINCOLNCHILD
Anchor BooksA Division of Random House, Inc.New York
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FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS MASS-MARKET EDITION, MARCH 2013
Copyright © 2012 by Lincoln Child
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2012.Anchor Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, religious bodies, corporate or governmental entities, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. The excerpt on pages 61–62 is from
The White Nile
by Alan Moorehead, published by HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.The Library of Congress has cataloged the Doubleday edition as follows:Child, Lincoln.The third gate: a novel / Lincoln Child. —1st ed.p. cm.1. College teachers—Fiction. 2. Americans—Middle East—Fiction. I. Title.PS3553.H4839T48 2012813'.54—dc23 2011045780
Anchor ISBN: 978-0-307-47374-5
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